Moriah laughed: "Heh-hahaha, Sage, there's no need to get so excited. If you want to fish, you can do it anywhere, don't act like you've never caught a fish before..."
At this point, Moriah's voice abruptly stopped. As a strong person, he immediately sensed the surrounding atmosphere wasn't right, obviously turning colder. This feeling made him swallow the rest of his words.
Strands of straw extended from Hawkins' legs. He pulled out his Tarot Cards, quickly shuffled them, then drew several and stuck them on the tips of the straw before pursing his lips, wanting to speak, yet stopping, stopping yet wanting to speak...
The surrounding subordinates seemed frozen, even the ship was still, just waiting in the sea for the group of Fighting Fish to bite.
One minute...
Two minutes...
Ten minutes...
"Hey, Moriah."
Until half an hour later, watching those shadows lurking in the seawater, Sage took a deep breath, turned back and said: "Didn't you say they would attack? Now they aren't even biting, these guys aren't coming up."
His Supreme King Haki can now be precisely controlled, pinpoint targeting, there won't be any leakage at all. He definitely only attacked the one Fighting Fish jumping out of the sea earlier, not affecting the others.
But now, for so long, this group of Fighting Fish just stays hidden in the water motionless, like they're dead.
"It's quite a spectacle, indeed."
Moriah also found it strange, touching his chin with the five fingers clad in sharp gloves, "Hmm... There's clearly a sign of life, they're very combative, haven't lost their will, so why don't they attack?"
"Hmm?"
Sage was taken aback for a moment, surprisedly glanced at Moriah.
Is this guy's will starting to recover?
Sage shook his head with a smile, pulling up the fishing rod and tossing it onto the deck, "Hmm... maybe it's too sudden, I'll come back in a couple of days to fish again."
Splash!
Just as he abandoned this fishing attempt, in that moment, it seemed the Fighting Fish sensed something, and huge splashes erupted around the ship as several Fighting Fish leaped up, aiming their horns at the Death Star.
"Tenha Kassatsu!!"
Haki coiled around Sage's hands, thrown out like black flames, raining down on the airborne Fighting Fish one after another.
Bang bang bang!
The enormous fish bodies of the Fighting Fish trembled, like exploding, blood flowers sprayed out, as they each dropped into the sea, staining the water under the Death Star a deep red.
"You did this on purpose!"
Sage glared at the sea surface, gritting his teeth, "Just you wait, I'll come back to fish you! Lily, set sail!"
Lily nodded, instructing the subordinates to continue sailing forward.
At this moment, Renedia quietly approached Hawkins and asked: "What's the probability you calculated?"
"Same as always." Hawkins also lowered his voice, "Sage definitely won't catch a fish..."
"Hehe, I knew it!"
Renedia showed her small tiger tooth, ran up next to Sage, tiptoeing to reach her small hand to pat Sage's shoulder, "Sage, Sage, don't worry, I'll help you blow up the fish!"
"Get! Get!" Sage grumpily glanced sideways at her, "Go play with your hammer!"
After a while, the Death Star approached the landing point, where a silhouette was already waiting on the shore.
The person was about the same height as Marika, with flowing green long hair and wearing a light blue striped camisole miniskirt, outlining a shapely figure.
A beauty.
The ship side lowered a gangway, Sage swung his fur-lined cloak, swaggering down the gangway, looked up and down at the green-haired woman, and asked, "Are you the one to receive us?"
The woman smiled slightly, bowed and saluted lightly, "Yes, Master Sage, my name is Monet. Young Master has instructed me, please allow me to guide you from here onward."
Speaking, she took the lead to move forward, Sage glanced around and followed her.
Inside the enormous rock, it's not all urban, there are trees and grassland around, like suburban wilderness, some settlement cottages sit here, forming villages.
And once you pass these villages, a sizeable busy town can be seen, and at the town's center, the city wall stretches across the entire island, dividing it into two halves.
Inside the walls is the bustling town, outside the walls traces of small towns can still be seen.
A country cannot be entirely covered in urban buildings, especially considering the island's considerable size. Dressrosa represents having a central city along with remote villages and towns.
Apart from the central city, beside the city wall, there are towering rock pillars, as for atop the pillars...
"Master Sage, the Royal Palace is up there, which is where I am taking you this time."
Nearing the city, Monet turned to Sage who was already looking up, then bowed once more, spreading her arms, "Welcome to the Land of Love, Passion, and Toys!"
The cityscape seemed to clear up, as if the clouds parted at her gesture.
In the scene ahead, on streets paved with bluestone, there were crowds full of laughter everywhere. Some were tap dancing and spinning, some performing acrobatics, others chasing, play-fighting, seemingly full of love and passion...
And toys.
Within this city, apart from humans, there were toys that could move like real people, some even walking arm in arm with humans, clearly couples, others were even a pair of parents raising a toy child.
Renedia's eyes shone, tugging at Marika's sleeve, "Look, they can move and talk, what kind of structure is this?! Hey, someone grab one for me, I want to take it apart for research!"